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Has Gchat Replaced Texting as the New Low-Fi Flirting?

Boy: when do you get your lunch break??me: ugh i dunno, after boss takes hersBoy: bummerme: haha. i wish you'd just ask me to have sex with youBoy is typing...Boy: ??me: sry wrong chat

Spitting mad game.

There is no more subtle art than that of the Gchat flirt. I fondly remember the days of yore, when those opposite-sex missives you decoded for hours with your friends came in text message form (and still do occasionally, but mostly these days are of the "3 AM booty call" variety). Simpler times. And before that, in high school, AIM! Remember AIM? And before that... uh... supposedly people in the Civil War wrote... letters? Or something?

No matter what time period, there's always been a somewhat less-nervewracking way to (remotely) get to know the object of your affection.

Among young people, especially, it seems that Gchat's the new foreplay. It's so smart! Send one or two dumb cat videos to a dude from college you had a crush on, and all of a sudden he's on your Gchat contacts list! And all of a sudden you're both bored at work and you guys are chatting! And all of a sudden you're copying and pasting the conversation into the 4 other Gchats you're having with other people, being all, "OMG, he's totally flirting with me, right??!" or "Doesn't he know I have a boyfriend??" or "Didn't he used to smell like burning hair? Deallllbreakerrrr."

Do you guys have any Gchat success stories you'd like to share? (I do!)